Circus Movies

This 90-minute documentary chronicles the making of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s 146th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth including...

A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.

Cirque du Soleil presents VOLTA – an inspiring story about the freedom to choose and the thrill of blazing your own trail.

While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people....

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Once upon a time, a door opened and two worlds collided. Dreams clashed with reality. The mundane mixed with the marvelous. It was no longer possible...

A 1986 set of three French clay animation shorts: The Multi-Coloured Little Circus and The Two Little Nightwalkers, both by Jacques Remy-Girerd, and...

An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.

Dud imagines himself as a daring circus performer (which would certainly impress Mamie.)

A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.

With our fieriness and our youthfulness, we wanted to reinvent the circus. The appeal of the circus has always been magical. But, Cirque du Soleil...

Sara Greene is a 20-year circus industry veteran with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. As the summer moves along on Weirs Beach,...

Silent cartoon.

Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.

A circus under the iron rule of an unreasonable leader, enthusiastically and unblinkingly followed, and one member whose faith in the circus, their...

French filmmaker Laurent Chevallier always wanted to make a documentary on an African circus, but there were no native circuses on the continent. So...

Cirque du Soleil presents The Mystery of Mystère, a captivating documentary that explores how arts and science merge together using...

Revelers mingle, drink, and dance at a street carnival.